Mandre, NR and Natarajan, KA (1987) Environmental aspects of bacterial oxidation with respect to the mining and processing of some sulfide minerals. In: Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 40 (2). pp. 128-136.Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)
The acid production potential of sulfide-containing ore and tailing samples from Au and Cu mining in the state of Karnataka, India, depended essentially on their mineralogical characteristics and the amount of S present in the samples. The acid-buffering capacities of the materials were in order: Cu tailings > Au tailings > Cu ore (+100 mesh) > Cu ore (+60 mesh) > Cu ore (+44 mesh) > Cu ore (+10 mesh). Thiobacillus ferrooxidans Enhanced acid production and heavy metal ion dissolution; bacterial oxidation is influenced by pH, sulfide minerals present, etc. High pH levels and a bactericide retarded bacterial oxidation.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
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|Department/Centre:||Division of Mechanical Sciences > Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)|
|Date Deposited:||12 Mar 2008|
|Last Modified:||27 Aug 2008 13:14|
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